Uncertain Luck

Another novel of international love and intrigue by the prize-winning author of A Hundred Veils. In 1969 Japan, Emiko`s father has gone to Tokyo to support students protesting the Vietnam War-but hasn`t come back. Then suddenly her mother dies. Alone and in despair, twenty-year-old Emiko abandons her factory job to go searching for her missing father. To survive in Tokyo, she stays at a hostel in the seedy Sanya neighborhood and takes a job as hostess in a bar where she`s required to 'talk cute,' which goes against her grain. She`s previously refused an offer to become the second wife of the rich Genji, twice her age, who had been in love with her mother. But when she`s fired and out of money, in desperation she goes to Genji`s office, hoping for a loan. Genji has something else in mind. Emiko nearly gives up finding her father when she meets Juan, an American soldier recovering from a battle injury. Now she`s in love with a soldier in the war she and her father have been denouncing for years. Uncertain Luck provides a vivid picture of the persistence of love at a time of political conflict in Japan.